| Re: Tom Bombadil
I need to read the trilogy again.
That particular passage is interesting. How many horrible fantasy books have each of us read that try so hard, and fail so miserably, to recreate the feeling we got from passages like that? There is so much history and culture represented in those lines of dialogue. Slews of authors try and fail to do that.
Man, I love those books.
Also on a sidenote here, I always felt strange about semicolons in dialogue. I guess Tolkien felt comfortable with them. Hmm. |